Design and Diagnosis for Sustainable Organizations, 2012 The Viable System Method

How can organizations and their managers face the tremendous complexity of the current environment? How can their compliance with the requirements of sustainability be evaluated? And how can new organizations be structured to ensure their viability? This book addresses these questions in a very practical way, essentially combining systems theory with cybernetics to help managers to evaluate and shape organizations by making accessible the wealth of knowledge contained in these fields. Importantly, it also provides guidelines for its practical application.

Systems Thinking, Organisational Cybernetics and the Viable System Model.- Diagnosis and Design of Organisations.- Pathologies of Organisations.- Software for VSM application.- Team Syntegrity.